...existing, and, I have no doubt, had done so from the time of Hadrian — full seventy years before. 3. In the progress of the preceding investigations, I...consisting of the vallum and the murus, with all the cusidla and towers of the latter, and many of the stations on their line, were planned and executed...

...been revived, by a most accomplished antiquary, the learned historian of Northumberland, who " has gradually and slowly come to the conviction, that...on their line, were planned and executed by Hadrian ;" and so firmly has he established his opinion, that it can hardly fail to be generally re-> ceived...

...ago, and at great length, advocated the viewnow given. His testimony is valuable : he says i1 — " In the progress of the preceding investigations, I...conviction that the whole Barrier between the Tyne at SEOEDUNUM and the Solway at Bowness, and consisting of the Vallum and the Murus, with all the castella...

...road- way — want of room obliges me to omit his arguments— he arrives at a different conclusion. " In the progress of the preceding investigations I...conviction that the whole barrier between the Tyne at Scgedunum and the Solway at Bowness, and consisting of the vallum and the murus, with all the castella...

...road-way — want of room obliges me to omit his arguments— he arrives at a different conclusion. " In the progress of the preceding investigations I...come to the conviction that the whole barrier between (lie Tyne at Scgedunnui and the Sol way at Bowness, and consisting of the vallum and the murus, with...

...gradually and slowly come to the conviction that the whole barrier between the Tyne and the Solway, and consisting of the Vallum and the Murus, with all...on their line, were planned and executed by Hadrian ; and I have endeavoured to show that in this whole there is unity of design, and a fitness for the...

...Severus." The Rev. John Hodgson, '•' the historian of Northumberland," formed a different opinion. He says : " In the progress of the preceding investigations...conviction that the whole barrier between the Tyne and the Solvay, and consisting of the Vallum and the Murus, with all the eastella and towers of the...

...especially when we consider the great attention he had given the subject; and with it we conclude:—"In the progress of the preceding investigations, I have...their line, were planned and executed by Hadrian; and I have endeavoured to show that in this whole there is unity of design, and a fitness for the general...

...especially when we consider the great attention he had given to the subject; and with it we conclude : ' In the progress of the preceding investigations, I...and slowly come to the conviction, that the whole Earner between the Tyne at SEGEDUNUM and the Solway at Bowness, and consisting of the Vallum and the...

..." History of Northumberland," in which he wrote (p. 3o9) : — " In the progress of the pre" ceding investigations, I have gradually and slowly " come...their line, were planned and executed by " Hadrian." The learning of this eminent antiquary was so great that, as the result of this expression of his opinion,...